Empress has purpose

Chapter 1 Yun Xi

The Great Epoch and the Spring of the 28th year.

Prime Minister's House.

Jinxiu Courtyard.

Just after the hour, there was a burst of noisy voices outside Jinxiu Courtyard.

Lu Wu, the eldest maidservant of the third girl of the Gu family, couldn't help frowning when she heard the louder and louder noise.

In March of Yangchun, the weather began to warm up, and it was no longer as cold as in winter. She raised her head and looked out the window. The sky was still a little gray, mixed with the noise from time to time, which made people feel more irritable.

Lu Wu couldn't help turning her head to look at her own girl who was sitting quietly beside her.

At this moment, Gu Yunxi is holding a book in her left hand, and lightly pushing away the black and crystal chess pieces with her right hand, thinking about the chess game, and the sound outside doesn't seem to affect her at all.

"Miss San, do you want your slaves to go out and have a look?" Lu Wu asked worriedly.

"No need." Some childish voices sounded in the room, the voice was not loud, but it carried an unquestionable taste.

Gu Yunxi dropped a chess piece indifferently, her long black and thick hair was scattered behind her back, and she tied it loosely in the middle with a ribbon.

"But if you let them continue to make trouble like this, those who don't know think that our Jinxiu Academy is bullying her, a lady from a foreign family, because of its status as the master, and it will not be good for your reputation, Miss San." Luwu said anxiously.

"There are still grandmothers on the left, so I won't let them mess around." Gu Yunxi smiled lightly, with a hint of laziness and carelessness in her voice, and then seemed to remember something, gently put down the book, and got up Go to the dresser.

"Go and call Fentao to come in and comb my hair, where has she gone so early?" She said and sat down in front of the vanity mirror.

"She, maybe she secretly went to see Miss Zhao's sloppy appearance again, and she is going to perform for you when she comes back." Lu Wu said with a smile, and walked out of the door to look for Fentao.

Gu Yunxi also seemed to think of Fentao's high spirits, reporting to herself vividly, and smiled with an unclear expression.

In the bronze mirror, there is a beautiful face, eyebrows like emerald feathers, muscles like white snow, dark and deep eyes, as deep as a pool of water, the corners of the small and ruddy mouth are slightly raised, and there is a star at the corner of the mouth. The thin little mole added a bit of charm to this dusty face.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Gu Yunxi sighed softly, and wanted to do something, when she heard a series of footsteps outside the door, bouncing around, getting closer and closer, until finally she happily opened the door and walked in.

Fentao walked through the floor-to-ceiling flower cover, and saw that the third girl was waiting for her, so she hopped over, took an ivory comb from the dressing table and gently smoothed her hair first, and said impatiently: "Third girl, you don't know that Miss Zhao is really rude. She ran to the gate of our courtyard to make a fuss early in the morning, and was stopped by a few women. She even insisted that Miss, you look down on her for being a remote The poor relatives from the local area didn’t even want to see each other, but they were ridiculed by sister Zizhu for a long time, and finally stayed at the gate of the courtyard, crying and refusing to leave! What a rascal!” Fentao hummed softly when she said this , as if out of breath.

"Zizhu is back?" Gu Yunxi asked in surprise.

Fentao was taken aback for a moment, as if she didn't expect the girl to ask this question, she thought for a while and replied: "Yeah, I thought it would take a few days to come back, but it turned out that I arrived this morning. Seeing Miss Zhao's family beating her up, sister Zizhu said a few words to her."

"What did you say?" Gu Yunxi asked casually.

"Sister Zizhu, she..." Fentao raised her eyes to look at Gu Yunxi, grinned, and just about to speak, she heard another female voice from outside the flower cover: "Girl."

Then a person came out from behind the flower cover with a copper basin, put the basin on the shelf in the corner, then walked respectfully behind Gu Yunxi and squatted down to salute, it was the purple bamboo that Fentao was talking about.

Gu Yunxi nodded, stood up, and walked to the corner where the copper basin was placed. Fentao and Zizhu also hurriedly followed and waited for Gu Yunxi to wash.

After taking the silk handkerchief from Zizhu, Gu Yunxi turned to Fentao and said, "Go to the kitchen to see if this morning's breakfast is ready, and if it's ready, bring over two plates first."

"Aren't you going to pay your respects to Madam today?" Fentao asked with some doubts.

"I'm a little hungry." Gu Yunxi uttered a few words softly, then stopped talking, turned around and walked back to the dressing table, Zizhu took two steps, followed behind Gu Yunxi, and naturally smoothed her hair with a comb.

"Yes, girl, I'll go right away." Fentao turned around and walked towards the door, before leaving, she looked back thoughtfully for a few times.

Gu Yunxi saw clearly from the bronze mirror, she pursed her lips, and the corners of her mouth curled into a smile again, and after Fen Tao went out, she called out softly: "Zizhu."

"The servant is here, what is the girl's order?"

"Everything is done? Is the road going well?"

"Returning to the girl, the journey went smoothly. The servant went there according to your instructions, and told the man verbatim. Zizhu still smoothed Gu Yunxi's hair, with a very serious attitude.

"Well, has Miss Zhao left?"

"Miss, Su Momo from the old lady's courtyard came just now, and she has invited her away." Zizhu replied respectfully.

"En." Gu Yunxi gave a soft thank you, and then called: "Zizhu."

Zizhu paused the hand holding the comb, looked up suspiciously, and looked at Gu Yunxi in the mirror: "Girl?"

Gu Yunxi turned around, gently wrapped Zizhu's slightly cold hand with her warm and delicate palm, and said softly: "Zizhu, you don't have to be so cautious every time, you are the one chosen by my mother to stay by my side, Apart from Nanny Shen, the person I trust the most is you."

Zizhu was stunned for a moment, she felt that the girl seemed to be a little different these few days, but she couldn't tell what was the difference, Gu Yunxi's warm palm wrapped herself, as if it warmed her heart, thinking of the girl who made her Things to do, her eyes became a little brighter, she nodded lightly, looked into Gu Yunxi's eyes and said: "I know, I will take good care of the girl."

Gu Yunxi nodded, as if she felt that she shouldn't say these things, so she turned around again and let Zizhu pull her hair for her, her thoughts gradually drifted away.

After a while, there was the sound of opening the door again, and the maid Luwu walked in, holding a few pale pink peach blossoms in her hands, and inserted the flowers into a porcelain vase with blue patterns, then turned around and walked to Gu Yunxi's side, seeing three The girl's sideburns were a little wet. Knowing that she had finished washing, she went to the closet, looked through the clothes carefully, and after a while pulled out a smoky blue cloud brocade cross-neck skirt, and said with a smile: "Girl, it's nice to wear this today." ?”

(End of this chapter)